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animals. The skin being now perfectly clean- 
ed, may have the preservative soap and pow- 
der appiled all over it; flax, or bits of rag, well 
annointed with the soap, may be placed in the 
head, nostrils, and about the hoofs, claws, and 
tail. It should then be laid out for a day or 
two; and, on a second examination, where any 
moisture appears, it must be absorbed by a 
cloth, and more powder applied, until it is quite 
dry. Bark in powder, and burnt alum, may 
also be successfully applied as absorbents. 
THE skin may now be stuffed with cotton, 
&c, and sewn up, to keep it in some degree in 
its natural form: or it may be rolled up and 
packed in canvass, and stowed away in a case 
or barrel. The hides of large animals, as ox- 
en, seals, &c. &c. are often brought from 
remote parts, with no other preparation than 
salt. 
